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The Dialogue of Civilizations in the Birth of Modern Science / by A. Bala.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Balasubramaniam, Arun.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sociology.
- Asia--History.
- Asia.
- Science--History.
- Science.
- Science--Philosophy.
- Africa--History.
- Africa.
- World history.
- Asian History.
- History of Science.
- Philosophy of Science.
- African History.
- World History, Global and Transnational History.
- Local Subjects:
- Sociology.
- Asian History.
- History of Science.
- Philosophy of Science.
- African History.
- World History, Global and Transnational History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (243 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2006.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Arun Bala challenges Eurocentric conceptions of history by showing how Chinese, Indian, Arabic, and ancient Egyptian ideas in philosophy, mathematics, cosmology and physics played an indispensable role in making possible the birth of modern science.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Why Did Modern Science Not Develop in Civilization X?; 3 The Eurocentric History of Science; 4 Multicultural Histories of Science; 5 Toward a Thematic Approach to Multicultural History; 6 What Made the Renaissance in Europe?; 7 The Narrow Copernican Revolution; 8 The Alhazen Optical Revolution; 9 The Modern Atomic Revolution; 10 Integrating Hellenic and Indian Traditions; 11 Universal Mathematical Laws in a Mechanical Universe; 12 Fusing Solar and Stellar Cosmologies; 13 The Wider Copernican Revolution
- 14 Contrasting Competitive PlausibilityNotes; Bibliography; Name Index; Subject Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611360955
- 9781281360953
- 1281360953
- 9780230601215
- 0230601219
- OCLC:
- 315733490
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